What Fallout 76 Should Explore When Returning to The Pitt
Fallout 76’s newest update takes players to post-war Pittsburgh. The upcoming expansion titled “Expeditions: The Pitt” presents a familiar scene for longtime fans of the franchise as the location was included in Fallout 3’s expansion pack of the same name.
This opens plenty of gameplay and narrative possibilities for Fallout 76 as it could draw on elements that were established in the Fallout 3 DLC. Granted, the two games took place around 175 years apart. However, based on the Expeditions: The Pitt story trailer, it seems the area is still in a somewhat similar state. As such, Fallout 76 can delve into elements from Fallout 3’s The Pitt DLC to add to the lore of the location.
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The Pitt add-on for Fallout 3 is the game’s second official DLC after Operation: Anchorage. In this expansion pack, the player travels to a post-apocalyptic version of Pittsburgh that’s been taken over by raiders, and the infamous Pitt is a central hub where slaves are put to work producing steel.
The Lone Wanderer of Fallout 3 enters the Pitt disguised as a slave and is quickly roped into a plan orchestrated by the other slaves. They’re tasked with acquiring a cure for a mysterious disease plaguing the wastelanders in the Pitt — raider and slave alike. The disease is known as the Troglodyte Degeneration Contagion (TDC), and it’s affected most of, if not all, the population of the Pitt.
The TDC causes its victims to lose their minds, regressing into feral versions of themselves known as Wildmen. Should the disease persist, the infected then change into the mutated creatures called Trogs — arguably one of the creepiest monsters in the Fallout franchise. Outside the confines of the
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